Hey whats up Digital Storm, I've been recommended here by a couple of people that I know, and so far from the reviews and etc that I read, everything looks awesome and better then the major companies. I'm looking for a rig for myself that I plan on buying in maybe 2 months time. I'll be saving money for myself, to pay everything myself without parents help.

Anyways I want to stay under the budget of 2 Grand, and want specifically these parts, I don't want water cooling though:

I have great experience in computers, it's just difficult for me to decide which parts to get and etc for under the 2 grand budget, in which I want in a couple of months. From the looks of everything, you guys have my business in about 2 months! Thanks for the help in advance guys.

Thank you DST for your reply, the reason why I'm aiming for a 5970 is for future purpose's as well, I might add another monitor with similar resolutions, as I will be using this computer for over 4+ years.

I can go over a little bit with the 2 Grand margin, thats not a problem for me.

And btw, no thank you to Nvidia products.......I like both Ati and Nvidia but I had some serious problems from past rigs of mine, ATI has always been reliable and never fugged up on me.

well 5970 is not really future proof, plus you would get better performance from 2 x 5870 then 1 x 5970. and if you wait to add the second when you need it, you would pay less for 2 x 5870 and enjoy better performance.

the reason is because now in days, the gpu solution I recommended will give you 50 to 60 fps at your resolution.

this means you are getting smooth game play, and after 60 fps you can't tell the difference, so if stock you are getting 60 fps and oced you are getting 95 fps, you will never notice the difference between the two, so why bring the extra heat to the equation when the performance will not be noticed.

and trust me, next year this time, we will be talking about nvidia not ati , but you never know, so lets see

I'm thinking the savings in going to be in bundles and tweaks so you can figure around how much you would spend now, minus a $100 or so, of course that is pure assumption and could be completely wrong.

Well, for one it outperforms a 5870 and will run everything flawlessly on 1920 x 1200 resolutions, as I may be adding another monitor and maybe even playing on a 60" TV with EXTREMELY high resolutions.

5970 is good for high resolutions and high-end gaming and is mostly futureproof, yea that is why xD

the 5970 will run everything a 5970 can at 1900 x 1200, with 4xaa even a 5970 can't pull crysis, so for 1900 x 1200 in most games you won't be able to tell if the system is running a 5870 or 5970, therefore its overkill, cause you won't notice the difference.

at 2560 x 1600 you will begin to notice the difference between 1 x 5870 and 1 x 5970.

if your 60 inch has a 1900 x 1200, then you can't tell the difference between a 5870 and 5970 on that tv either in most games.

now on the other hand if your tv or monitor will have a res of 2560 x 1600, then you need to get a 5970.

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